skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which IMO is silly. Institutional investors hold 160% of GME’s float. For every institutional investor wanting it to tank there are others who want to see it rise. It’s not like the institutions all agree or anything - “The man” is on both sides of this.
You're all free to rate it on iOS too...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/robinhood-investing-for-all/id...
But there's a law against manipulating stocks.
Yes, I noticed it and already edited my comment, my bad. The person below is a blue checkmark.
Then eventually things implode, society collapses, a dictator takes over after claiming they will help the starving masses and so on. Starving masses who have lost their life savings do not make for a good place to live even if you avoid being one of them. Society should be protected from the fallout of capitalism to a reasonable degree.
That's just it though, Robin hood didn't delist gamestop. They just decided arbitrarily that their users are only allowed to sell it. Coincidentally, this is a move that highly benefits a major partner of theirs.
A bit meta

Please, lets not make this board a trading chat, or a mirror of reddit's boards?
a way to buy shares in some service that does not fully exist yet, but has great upside potential

Time for a SPAC token offering!
This is the same RH that extended Margin accounts to complete amateur investors with practically no vetting before-hand.

People that think they'll get rich off pocket-change investments, are not in a position to understand trading on margin, nor it's risks.
Ahhh, I see, understood. If RH (or any brokerage) tried to sell shares of stock I owned outright (i.e. exchanged USD for a share at market price) I would be livid. But it sounds like this article is maybe overblown.

Thanks for the clarification!
It's in the logs, go see for yourself?

GME purchases blocked this morning on apps where Citadel is the clearing house.

SOMEONE proceeds to ladder short sell GME to cause a massive price dump.

Users are margin called from previously profitable positions (without being able to provide buying pressure needed to fight against a ladder short sell)

Shorts are able to unethically cover your position.

Read into this... it's all over the news and verifiable with documentation from various regulatory agencies.
Is the aim to teach functional programming as a paradigm or specifically "functional programming languages"? For High School, I would assume the first may be more important than the latter, and you may have good benefit from teaching FP as a paradigm in a language they are taught elsewhere or might have other reasons to use. You can spend less time teaching syntax and more time focused on patterns/practices.

Which is to say, maybe start out in Typescript itself? There are a lot of great more functional paradigm-focused libraries out there in "Fantasy Land" [1] and "Static Land" [2].

A benefit to starting in Typescript as well would be that you could move to Elm or PureScript if there is time/interest and reuse many of the same libraries and/or even some of the earlier TS code/projects.

It obviously seems like a trade-off that using a language that isn't "strict" or "native" to the functional paradigm, students might be tempted to avoid learning the functional paradigm and fall back to old habits. But on the other hand, that can still be a useful escape hatch to avoid frustration, especially with High School students who might have enough other stuff on their plates that some leniency might be handy/warranted (and for High Schoolers they shouldn't have that many "old" habits to fall back on anyway). It could be good teaching praxis to start with "Why did you fall back to doing this imperatively/OO/what-have-you? Did you try X? What if you explore Y that we discussed in class?" You and the students might learn a lot from dialogs like that.

Just some thoughts. There's probably no "perfect" language, but sometimes the best language is the one people already know because that gets a lot of the basics out of the way and out of the focus.

[1] https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land

[2] https://github.com/fantasyland/static-land
Which then has a spiraling effect in that other disaffected people will read those comments and believe what they want to believe. Similar to the conspiracy theories in the election. However I do think there has been some super shady stuff done with robinhood that doesn't take that much to believe that there is a conspiracy/collusion is at play. It's hard to believe that they are altruistically de-risking their clients when they sell doge coin.
Robinhood is now reportedly force-selling GME, though I've seen nothing but screenshots to confirm.
Is there actual proof they colluded with Citadel, or is that just speculation? I'm very confused?
> With things like Flatbuffers, I sometimes feel we've regressed to these old formats that are just memory dumps.

It depends on what your application requirements are, but there are compelling arguments that on-disk / on-wire representations should match in-memory representations. It’s not too hard to end up with in a scenario where encoding / decoding times are a significant contribution to overall performance.
RH using protecting retail investors' interests as an excuse now to force selling of shares
> Melvin already cut its losses this week, as was widely reported.

This was widely reported, and Melvin might not be the big bag holder anymore, but the short interest hasn't subsided. It's actually grown.

The squeeze never happened. The squeeze never happened.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/we-have-some-bad-news-game...
"This is Wall-street Dr. Burry, if you offer us free money, we're going to take it"

Absolute nonsense. The exchange is protecting the trader from himself!!

The exchange is designed to make money selling and buying. There is no reason they would stop either unless some big wig made a phone call.
There is indeed no such recording - but calling the official an "aide" is a bit inaccurate, the official in question was the domestic policy chief[1] - rather than a random secretary that claims to have overheard something.

That all said, for all of the negative PR Nixon has received over the years he was a rather progressive and surprisingly egalitarian executive who has been praised by Indian Country Today[2] and appears to have stuck pretty close to his quaker upbringings. I think a lot of people conflate Nixon and Regan - which is pretty ridiculous when you look at the policies those two presidents actually pursued during their terms... And even more folks are getting second hand vibes from Nixon's infamous presidential debate[3] which pitted a rather uncharismatic man against JFK and led to a pretty obvious outcome.

1. https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-n...

2. https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/barack-obama-and-rich...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cdRpE4KKc Just FYI - if you've never seen this I'd suggest giving it a go sometime. Given recent politics it's almost fantastical to listen to two folks come into a debate focused on the issues and minimizing the ways they attacked each other.
only in sufficiently advanced civilizations.
I don't know why I am being downvoted for sharing the truth...
Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)
Try to read ebooks via browser and couldn't find one that really works that able to replace desktop readers.

Made one that usable for daily use. Comments and suggestion welcome.
I think it's more accurate to call the name manipulative marketing and what we're seeing is just a company out to make money and save its ass.
in fact, I'd like a cronjob for that. we can't be reviewing only after something major happens.
Robinhood would not put themselves in such a precarious position if they had already exited - also as for the price target of when they actually do start covering their shorts, they are still currently short more than the available amount of shares on the market - the current trading range of around 200-300 cannot be the squeeze.
Yes, it's not generally something for a retail trader to worry about, since the broker is providing the borrow (or disallowing the trade saying it's unavailable, as many have probably seen with GME), but hypothetically if you managed it it's generally not allowed.
It's in the logs, go see for yourself?
GME purchases blocked this morning on apps where Citadel is the clearing house.

SOMEONE proceeds to ladder short sell GME to cause a massive price dump.

Users are margin called from previously profitable positions (without being able to provide buying pressure needed to fight against a ladder short sell)

Shorts are able to unethically cover your position.

Read into this... it's all over the news and verifiable with documentation from various regulatory agencies.
I wrote a PSD v5 parser for BeOS back in 1999 or 2000 (it acted as a plug-in for the OS's image format subsystem, and was also usable by 3rd party apps to write PSD files).

I was one of the suckers who faxed a formal request to Adobe to get the file spec.

I was young, and foolish, and spent the better part of a month or so in a hex editor trying to understand why a single file format could have like 3 different string encodings.
Oh it's "supported" if you try to sell it. They only stop you from buying.
I disagree with it, OSS ecosystem heavily rely on individual contributions at first.
Both Elastic and CentOS cases are successful just because they are opensource, otherwise there would way little buzz around it, I strongly believe they would not have been successful if they were not licensed under Opensource license.
If you lost your life savings on GME, you deserve to starve

edit: the only way you could be losing your life savings on GME is with a dumb, arrogant short position. yes, you should starve...isn't this what a short sale is anyway? A bet that someone else will starve?
> Did we learn nothing in 2008?

Yep, that we are going to have to pay their losses.
As someone with like 150+ tabs open in Firefox, I should probably be happy about this, but I'm not. Feels like they're encouraging my sick obsession with tabs when I should in fact be put on rehab.
I'm all for this, I might even be able to move to a cheaper country and do the full digital nomad thing. I sort of want to find a way to save a minimum of $100,000 per year in order to retire within the next 10 years.

I definitely could see the government creating incentives to get people back to work. The big issue of people no longer commuting, is millions of people working auxiliary industries which are getting screwed right now. The guy who works at the cafe next to your office, the landlords who own buildings, even car mechanics.

I suspect by the end of 2021, we'll see more 50% work from home, particularly for new engineers.
The automatic sell aside, isn't just restricting trades on the given stocks just bad enough already?
No businesses with >200 employees should be allowed to exist.
Why Did Robinhood Shut Down GameStop Trading?
> They could eventually use ethernet over HDMI

There’s no business model where the STB wants to route Internet traffic on behalf of the TV. Ads on the TV compete with the STB.

> or simply include a cellular modem of some sort.

Yes, an ad platform running over the lower bandwidth but cheap IoT service could justify including this hardware.
I’m less into the free speech component. I think companies should have the right to curate a community they see fit.

What I do care about is moving to protocols and data portability. I want the ability to switch to another provider if I’m not happy with their decisions. I absolutely don’t like my data being held hostage.

I also hope this realization extends to things like GMail which hasn’t yet seen a similar scrutiny
The path to carbon negative – a progress report on our climate ‘moonshot’
Rh wants to go public and relies on Citadel. Both major reasons why Rh does the larger funds' bidding. Rh's trading for the people angle is a bunch of BS
...maybe if we have the one true Geiger Counter to call the debt jubilees
trading212 wouldn't let me buy, but fairtrade app did.
It seems very bad design to begin with to have a function both return a value and be non-transparent in any other way than what it needs in order to return said value.

But in some cases, this is needed for efficiency.
> Who would remmain using them after this?

Most users who don’t know anything about WSB probably
The prices are lagging by a min, counts/popularity is updated in real time(you need to refresh though). I am planning to add websocket soon.
If you’re talking about this article https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-shortbets-... the 70 billion number is loss on _all_ short sales YTD. GME is about 1 billion of that total.
> Are we just going to continue to allow wall street to get away with fleecing everyone else in America / the world?

Well yeah. Why would you expect anything else? And if anyone complains about it, the complaints will get scrubbed off the internet. And if you go to private messengers to complain, your session keys will get escrowed because "terrorism" or "misinformation" or something and you'll be banned. Keep in mind that the WallStreetBets Discord server was banned for "hate speech" right in the middle of all the recent drama. Does anyone actually believe that was the real reason?

It's because of shenanigans like this that I'm categorically against any sort of control whatsoever over flows of information.
Why is my post flagged?
So I posted this story some hours ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25945335 only to see all of a sudden that it’s been flagged...please could anyone explain why it varnished from other posts just like that?
I'm always interested in data points, so thank you! If you don't mind, I'd love to hear what hardware/OS you're using. We have a lot of test devices, and it sounds like your particular setup is one that Google (and possibly we) aren't doing a good job factoring into our settings defaults/workarounds/special cases. So I think we maybe need another test device. :-)
I actually loved Consider Phlebas.

Sure, it has some rough parts, and it's not perfect, and Banks certainly wrote better novels. But it's the book that (together with Look to Windward, which is a spiritual sequel referencing the events in Phlebas) most clearly and beautifully articulates Banks' anti-war sentiment.

In this novel, nothing is gained. Almost everyone dies. There are no heroes, though there's some nobility in the fighting. In the grand scheme of things, the events of the novel end up not mattering one iota. All that remains is the trauma of the survivors. Ultimately, war is meaningless and leaves everyone scarred.

It's also the one novel that shows the Culture from an outsider's perspective, painting Special Circumstances in a less flattering light than other Culture novels.

By the way, I wrote those dissenting comments in that Goodreads thread. The reviewer is notorious on Goodreads for giving almost everything written before 1950 single-star ratings (one commenter called him a "time-traveling Victorian"). I'm not sure what his purpose was in even reading Iain M. Banks. About the only recent thing he's liked is Watchmen and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
See my response below - do some due diligence on your own part instead of asking people to spoon feed you information, lol
I can not find the use-cases this might answer, is this supposed to replace IaC tools such as ansible or Terraform?
AFAIK using standard GCE instances and updating them or re-rovisioning them is a quite cheap operation, I'm not sure where this stands in the whole "pet vs cattle" spectrum.
I could be missing something, I am genuinely curious about this new product.
I thought RH only allowed margin if you paid the monthly fee? Or, are you talking about margin for purposes of settling so you can trade again before a sale is fully settled?
If you have a margin account, the broker calculates a risk based margin and can close any position they wish if they deem it a risk. They don't have to give you any justification. With increased buying power comes increased risk.

In some sense this was basically inevitable. Robinhood allowed (perhaps even encouraged) a huge mass of clueless investors to flood into the market. As long as the going was good, nobody complained, but as soon as things go south, people have started to learn expensive lessons.

This is not the first time this has happened. Almost every single market stress for the past 20 years has caused grief to retail in some way as they were caught out on something they didn't know about.

One clear example that comes to mind is when the Swiss national bank has removed the currency peg and a whole bunch of FX retail has made the expensive discovery that stop limit orders are not guaranteed to execute...
The screenshots I've seen aren't due to margin calls, also not end of day yet
Deep Learning Hardware Guide (2018)
See the top comment in that post.
It's based of a rolling 24h window. This gets updated in real time from r/wsb comments;
Plotnine: Grammar of Graphics for Python (2019)
This is suggesting a technical support, not a rah-rah support.
since when "free speech" means to be nice?!

what a tool :)
We started working on OpenRaster for that: https://www.openraster.org/ -- but it's not really moving along very well.
How the software becomes unmaintainable? – a practical example
An ugly, sometimes over neglected truth of the industry is that the software that we work on does not become unmaintainable and tedious and difficult to work with overnight. It becomes like this with every change we introduce.
Primitives have not historically been aligned to their own size. There are plenty of older systems where double floats had 32-bit alignment instead of 64-bit, or 32-bit integers had 16-bit alignment.
A slippery slope argument assumes the maximum degenerate outcome of sliding down the slope as a certainty, that no one will be able to correct for, mitigate or reverse the slide when it starts. That's what makes it a fallacy - it's a thought terminating cliche meant to eliminate the possibility of nuance, as any middle ground is implicitly part of the slope.

Otherwise, it's just an argument that risk exists, which is obvious and uninteresting.
Next you'll be telling me ascots aren't standard morning wear. (One of my favorite cartoon alter egos as a child was Henry Cabot Henhouse, III.)

Still this is the whole point of the article, he makes a reasonable example.
> avoid being moderated by dang?

Maybe we like being moderated by dang? Maybe he’s a key feature of the “hacker news application” that runs over the open protocols ...
> Bank of America/Merrill Edge also shut down buy orders for GME.

I heard that Bank of America/Merrill Edge was requiring posting a 100% margin as collateral if wanting to buy GME options. I didn't hear that they shut down buy orders for GME stock.
For real, despite three years of QAnon people are still failing miserably to apply any incredulity about whatever they read on the internet. That it affirms their beliefs is all that matters, never mind its veracity.
looks nice and clean. yeah pretty sure it's a popular idea atm haha.
That's part of the Sophie's Choice. If we have private owned social media, then they will moderate according to public opinion. If we have us government run social media then we have no moderation at all because 1st amendment applies only to us government.

So is it morally allowable to discuss <abhorrent topic> online? Should it be law to allow or disallow <abhorrent topic>?

Who decides what the majority of people consider to be abhorrent?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25946832
Could you please review the site guidelines and stick to the rules when posting here? They include:

"Please don't fulminate."

That means please don't post comments in which indignation overwhelms information. That lowers signal/noise and escalates activation in others, which takes us away from curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Could you explain why Signal users are more careful than email users?

Sorry, I forgot to mention that phones are typically seen as more secure, and phones are the go-to operating systems that people use now, and are (usually) permanently switched on, so have to be secure since they are constantly exposed to the public Internet. (Yes, Windows can be seen as secure too, but IMHO phones are more secure. Windows is getting better over the years and have mitigated and patched a lot of the common vulns you do see).

> Aren't all Signal users also email users?

No. Email is often reached from many different OSes and environments. It is common and expected to see people logging into their Gmail from potentially compromised systems at work, or at Internet cafes. They just assume that whenever they login, the are 'secure' when in some cases the Internet cafe is logging everything or their employer has setup 'monitoring' software to ensure they are actually working and not dossing.

Signal: not so much. They have a single secure device that they use to communicate with, and since Signal is tied to a SIM: migrating your old Signal 'account' to a new SIM is impossible.
I'm not sure it's quite worst of both worlds. One of my company's local offices would be a 90ish minute commute. That's doable for a day a week but not really sustainable a lot more frequently than that. (I used to have another job with a similar commute; it was rough on a regular basis even if I didn't go in many days.)

You can definitely increase the radius of where you can live but you're right that you can't go live in a mountain town.
In the non-debug build, the compiler was free to align structs as it saw fit, in the debug build, it was told to pack them really tight, no padding. Why? The only reason I can think of is to save a few precious bytes of disk space.
Amazing photos. This one can easily be a company logo - https://alexey-kljatov.pixels.com/featured/real-snowflake-20...
You're right, I'm off by an OOM. I think perhaps comparing them to a $2.5B hedge fund might not be out of the ballpark.

Didn't know about the $500M lost on $6B in revenue, but gaming is a growing market, they just got a ton of free advertising, so seems like they have a chance to do something great.
I’ll agree that there are similarities between Parler and WSB Discord issue (how much hate speech is tolerated on your platform is a decision made by your service provider, not you) but the WSB Robinhood issue is something else altogether.
They are probably thinking of the MBTA CharlieCard[0][1], which was cracked by MIT students. The MBTA sued them to try to keep them from presenting their research at DEFCON.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CharlieCard#Security_concerns

[1] https://archive.boston.com/business/articles/2008/03/06/t_ca...
> You trade with robinhood's money, then they can decide not to lend it to you anymore for nearly any reason they want.

Can they? I thought margin calls were you personal debt. It's like the bank deciding to sell your house that you have mortgage on because they think the market is too volatile. Makes little senes.
also, you're an obvious hedge fund industry shill, see your comment history
You're not a lawyer, which is why you don't understand that ToS writing never protects you from actual criminality, which in this case appears to be a clear case of market manipulation (restricting trades to only sales and not buys? how much more blatant can you get).
It depends on the circumstance. Broadly, for straight equity position, they can close it if you owe them money (on other positions) or you haven't met your legal requirements (letting documents expire etc) or they think your abusing the T&Cs.

The fact this says "market volatility" is very suspect. That's not a reason to close my position unless I had a sell order in anyway but it went through with a bad price.

The fact its one screenshot from a twitter thread full of outrage about elites and 12 year old bailouts makes me suspect the user is just unhappy and there is likely good reason his position was closed.